Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0). Tap a score to see what makes it up.
Highest usefulness score first. Studies without a score come last.
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ACP documentation >30 days before death was associated with lower odds of in-hospital death for all 4 conditions both in patients with and without multimorbidity.
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Montessori-based interventions (MBIs) were developed to promote guided participation in meaningful activities by people with dementia patients.
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This suggests that if physical distancing measures are extended for months or years until either herd immunity or a vaccination, a shocking proportion of LTC residents are likely to die under a 'new normal' of isolation that few would choose.
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In regards to policy-making decisions and resource allocation, the success of making technology more accessible to the marginalized older population should not be measured solely on the outcome of avoiding acute care services; its benefits should rather be assessed with functional health as the focus of intervention, including measures of psychophysical well-being and life satisfaction.9 Higher-end immersive technologies could be installed as a private expense in a patient's room; they could also be made available in common recreational areas within a leisure and/or fitness room, provided by the LTC facility through support of government subsidies and incentives aimed at promoting health of its aging population.
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Five out of six enrolled dyads completed the sessions.
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Smartphones and wearables could provide beneficial and pervasive support and monitoring for rehabilitation among people with dementia.
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Hearing loss affects close to 1.3 billion people and is a growing global health concern as the fourth leading contributor to years lived with disability. 1 The global economic cost associated with hearing loss is estimated at 750 billion United States dollars (US$) annually.2 However, hearing loss has limited public health support, especially in low-and middle-income countries, where incidence is high and resources often scarce and unequally distributed.
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Dementia-friendly designs are important in residential care homes but an aspect that remains neglected is the potential role of door designs in promoting wayfinding.
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Database linkage to Medicare claims records is an efficient and reasonably accurate tool to identify dementia cases in a population-based cohort.
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Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRDs) are a global crisis facing the aging population and society as a whole.
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In this large population-based study, the overall prevalence of Whipple's disease in the USA is 9.8 cases per 1 million people.
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VR immersion training is an effective teaching method to help medical and health professions students develop empathy and is a budding area for library partnerships.
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Family carers encounter several challenges related to caring for people with dementia, and they need support in managing care recipients’ health needs.
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The pattern is manifested in one or more of the following: a) engaging in repetitive sexual activities has become a central focus of the person's life to the point of neglecting health and personal care or other interests, activities and responsibilities; b) the person has made numerous unsuccessful efforts to control or significantly reduce repetitive sexual behaviour; c) the person continues to engage in repetitive sexual behaviour despite adverse consequences (e.g., repeated relationship disruption, occupational consequences, negative impact on health); or d) the person continues to engage in repetitive sexual behaviour even when he/she derives little or no satisfaction from it.
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After covariate adjustment, there were few significant racial differences in caregiving strain, health, and service use.
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An aging population and human longevity is a global trend.
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Our findings may suggest potential deficiencies in ambulatory care and postdischarge care related to managing comorbidities among Medicare fee-for-service ADRD patients.
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The European Medical Information Framework initiative supports EHR data on unprecedented number of people with dementia.
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Based on these findings, various actions are recommended for development, usability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, deployment, and ethics of assistive and health technologies across Europe.
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Patients with prior AD diagnosis used substantially more medical services every year until their VD/PD diagnosis, resulting in incremental annual medical costs of approximately $9,500-$14,000.
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All but one patient showed one or more neuropsychiatric symptoms.
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Consumption increased by 49.72% between 2006 and 2011.
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In total 148 caregivers participated in the project with 57 of them from Australia (26 and 31 in the qualitative and quantitative strands respectively) and 91 of them from China (23 and 68 in the qualitative and quantitative strands respectively).
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A new Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) designed specifically for rating depression in the elderly was tested for reliability and validity and compared with the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRS-D) and the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS).
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Mean scores of emotional distress were significantly higher in carers at each time point than in controls (all p<0.0003).
From across this topic
9 of the 1,022 studies in this topic, picked by a fixed rule (a hash of each study's address), not by score or date; each page of this list shows a different 9. The same 9 appear here every time.
- Expert-Derived Components of Person-Centred Nursing Intervention for People with Dementia and/or Cognitive Impairment in a Hospital Experiencing Distress
- Differences in Burden Severity in Adult-Child Family Caregivers and Spousal Caregivers of Persons with Dementia
- Short-Horizon Metrics and the Persistence of Capacity-Debiting Practices in Nursing Homes
- Newly diagnosed postoperative depression and incident dementia after major surgery: a Korean nationwide retrospective cohort study
- Beyond comorbidity: expanding the definition and measurement of complexity among older adults using administrative claims data
- Patterns of comorbidity and multimorbidity in the oldest old: the Octabaix study
- Association Between Dementia Care Programs in Assisted Living Facilities and Transitions to Nursing Homes in Ontario, Canada: A Population-Based Cohort Study
- Long-term care use among people living with dementia: a retrospective register-based study from Sweden
- “The conversation wouldn’t happen without us”: How interpreter involvement affects dementia service delivery for CALD clients in Australia